Just about every country in the world, apart from the U.S., Liberia and Myanmar, measures temperature in Celcius rather than Fahrenheit and measures length in centimeters and meters rather than inches ...

Ever wondered what happened to our country’s conversion to the metric system? I did too. So, I did some digging and turned up some dead bodies in the process. Advertisement Article continues below ...

This text presents a layered and often chaotic stream of thoughts that exposes the cultural and psychological forces working ...

When we saw a ‘We the People’ petition to the White House to make the US move to the metric system, we listed very sensible reasons why the US should listen: The imperial system is archaic, irrelevant ...

Can the United States of America continue to stand alone against the looming threat of… the metric system? That was the thrust of a June 5 segment by Fox News host Tucker Carlson, in which he spoke ...

On April 19, 1973, Wilson Riles, superintendent of public instruction for California. called to announce that beginning in 1976 the metric system would be taught in California. The reaction from the ...

Walter Block argues that “Canadians Hate the Metric System” imposed on them in 1975 (op-ed, Sept. 16). In the same year, reacting to the Metric Conversion Act, Americans resisted metrics. For example, ...

The United States could be using the metric system — the universal system of measurement that every industrialized nation uses except the U.S. — if it wasn’t for a bunch of pirates 224 years ago.

Why are metric and imperial horsepower different? It all goes back to the units James Watt used in his original calculations.

William Holdorf’s amusingly vehement reaction against the metric system (“A foolish U.S. push to go metric,” Voice, Jan. 3) illustrates the very American habit of flaring our individualism at the ...

A system of weights and measures that uses the gram, meter and liter as its primary units of weight, distance and capacity. The metric system is the primary standard used all over the world except in ...